An "Art in Opera" show and sale will be included in the Opera in the Ozarks Summer Festival 2009, June 19th through July 17th.  The Opera will celebrate its' 59th season this year. 

    Members of the Eureka Springs Artist Registry and the local art community are invited to submit one piece of original 2-D art that contains a theme from the 2009 Opera Season. The operas are Manon, Albert Herring, I Pagliacci, and Hansel & Gretel. Events are scheduled to be held at the Crescent Hotel  and the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center where artwork will be exhibited and available for purchase. Selected art will also be shown at each opera performance held at the Inspiration Point Fine Arts Center, and the Arend Arts Center in Bentonville. Artists will receive 90% from sales with 10% of the proceeds going to OIO scholarships.

   Th Art in Opera event will fulfill a long-held dream of Opera in the Ozarks Guild President Pam Jones to involve the highly diverse local art community in Opera in the Ozarks.

   For additional information and an application, including a prospectus, please go to: www.opera.org   and click on "Art in Opera". Susan DeRosa is the Chair and Pamela Jones Co-Chair. Contact numbers will be available online. 

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